AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 411.41 significantly less expensive
$ 491.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
24% slightly better overall score
2679 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
37% slightly better gaming score
3763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
2311 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
2218 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
69.61 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3089 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
491 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3052 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
505 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
76% significantly lower TDP
115 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
596th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Xeon E5-2670 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the Xeon E5-2670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2670. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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